Margravine Auguste Marie Johanna of Baden-Baden

Margravine Auguste Marie Johanna of Baden-Baden, duchesse d'Orléans ( _de. Auguste Marie Johanna von Baden-Baden; November 10 1704 in Aschaffenburg – August 8 1726 in Paris) was a Princess of Baden-Baden and the wife of Louis of Bourbon, Duke of Orléans.

Auguste Marie Johanna was the ninth child of the Imperial Army commander Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden and his wife Sibylle Auguste of Saxe-Lauenburg, who was twenty years younger than her husband.

Auguste Marie married on July 13 1724 Louis d'Orléans, "duc d'Orléans", the grandson of Louis XIV of France, her father's former enemy. Chosen for, among other reasons, her family catholic beliefs, she brought a comparatively small dowry of 80,000 livres to the Orléans. At the court of Versailles, she was known as "Jeanne de Bade". [Claude Dufresne, "Les Orléans", Critérion, Paris, 1991, chapter: "Un prince par trop dévot".] She died on August 8, 1726, at the age of twenty-two, three days after giving birth to the couple second child, at the Palais Royal, the Paris residence of the Orléans.

Children

* Louis Philippe d'Orléans (May 12, 1725 - November 18, 1785),
**titled duc de Chartres at birth,
**duc d'Orléans upon his father's death in 1752;
* Louise Marie d'Orléans (August 5, 1726 - May 14, 1728)
**titled "Mademoiselle d'Orléans" at birth.

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